Candidates vow to end war (as was promised last time)

To quote one of Bush's incoherent psycho-rants: "Fool me once, shame on, shame on you. You fooled me, you can't get fooled again."

Forty-two Democratic congressional candidates (none of whom are incumbents) have promised to support legislation to remove all American troops from Iraq (except for a security force to guard the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad).

If only. An end to the war was vowed 2 years ago by Democrats who are in Congress now. That turned out to be a big broken promise, didn't it? I have no doubt that several of the 42 who make this promise now will try to end it, but with such lightweight leadership in Congress, how far do you think they're going to get?

Congressional leaders have already proven during this term that they don't understand what the word 'mandate' means. Which is why we still have to contend with garbage like the '96 telcom law and the Patriot Act that's long past its shelf life. In an article in The Last Word right after the 2006 election, I very generously gave them 2 years to reverse the major legislative disasters of the previous 12 years, and so far I don't think they've repealed a single one.

The Democratic leadership has become so weak-willed that I'm seriously starting to think that the war's not going to end until a party like the Greens takes control of Congress. Sad, but true.

(Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/27/AR2008032702963_pf.html)